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Larry Dobson says he was doing his job when he made his way to the scene of a drowning on July 17. The local sheriff said the journalist was intruding. The two have been trading barbs over who was right and wrong.

ByVictoria Mckenzie |June 12, 2018

Civil rights attorneys say a Florida ban on a publication critical for inmates fighting abuse and neglect behind bars sets a dangerous precedent for press freedom. But editor Paul Wright’s one-man battle against what he calls prison censorship has largely been ignored by the media.

Apparently prompted by his favorite TV show, “Fox and Friends,” Trump tweeted that the media was “working overtime” against him. “Why do we work so hard in working with the media when it is corrupt?” he wrote on Twitter. “Take away credentials?”

Reporters and photographers were among those swept up by police for failing to disperse during protests in September. After the Post-Dispatch complained, police officials say officers will be reminded each month that journalists must be allowed to do their job.

The President is creating an office to help victims of crime by immigrants, but James Lynch, president of the American Society of Criminology, says immigrants “have lower incidences of crime compared to the public at large. The immigrant population does nothing but good — they pay taxes, they do the work. It is pretty clear that immigrants are a positive force and a very low production of crime on their part.”

Two narratives have emerged on the forced resignation of Michael Flynn as national security adviser. The traditional media suggested he was being held accountable. The right-leaning media portrayed it as a political crucifixion. Trump blames government leaks and the media.

Officials in Alaska’s largest city are cutting off public access to scanner traffic, a crackling source of breaking news for generations of reporters and citizens. After a legal review, the officials decided that potential negative consequences outweigh the benefits.

ByDavid Krajicek |May 11, 2016

Police-media relations may have bottomed out following a series a controversial police-involved deaths beginning last August, when Michael Brown was killed by Officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Mo. Journalists covering the resulting unrest were harassed, bullied and arrested by police.

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William Edwards, released from jail with a GPS tracking device that he has to pay for, is one of thousands of poor defendants left at the mercy of an ‘E-carceration” system increasingly run by for-profit services, writes an attorney who is leading a class action lawsuit combating the practice.

The “piecemeal” approach by state and federal court approach to addressing trial-level errors fails to account for the complex ways that seemingly independent errors interact with one another, writes a professor at the Northeastern University School of Law.

Vox news reporter German Lopez reports there were plenty of reasons for the low turnout from white nationalists at Sunday's Unite the Right rally, including alt.right organizers' fear of retribution. He quotes neo-Nazi Andrew Anglin as warning prospective participants: "Getting doxed as a neo-Nazi street fighter will ruin your life, forever.”

A Brooklyn, N.Y,-based grassroots group is teaching people with substance abuse disorder how to avoid getting ensnared in the criminal justice system. Organizer Jason Del Aguila says the first step is empowering individuals in their encounters with the courts and police.

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